Top 10 Tips for Trading Successfully

Why are these tips so important?

The first few steps you take in the financial markets can be quite scary, so we've assembled our top 10 trading tips to help you through the rough start and onto trading success. Here you can find solid principles for classical trading as well social trading, as it is enabled by eToro social trading network, the eToro OpenBook.

1. Pick a Style, Any Style

Not all trades are for all traders. In other words, your trading activity should correspond to your account size, to your availability and other individual factors. If your account is relatively small, you have to scale down your activity so that you don't risk too much on any one trade. If you're not available to monitor your trades constantly, don't open high risk short term positions that require quick intervention. If you don't know much about the Japanese Yen, don't trade it until you do.

2. Watch and Learn

The eToro OpenBook social trading network is there to connect you with other traders so you can learn from and share ideas with them. Pick traders who have a similar trading style to yours and follow them so you can learn their strategies and techniques. Following other traders can also alert you to profitable trading opportunities.

3. Stop Forgetting Your Stop Loss!

A key reason people quit trading is heavy losses and the single biggest cause of losses is failure to use a Stop Loss. Using the Stop Loss will prevent your losses from getting out of hand when the market goes against you. Use it wisely and you'll see your losses decreasing.